Director, Manufacturing Engineering
About The Position
The Director of Manufacturing Engineering provides enterprise leadership for manufacturing process excellence, automation, and asset reliability across Overhead Door Corporation’s eight U.S. manufacturing facilities. The role develops and executes a unified manufacturing engineering and maintenance strategy to improve productivity, equipment uptime, and technological advancement. It integrates engineering, maintenance, and facilities functions while driving automation, digitalization, and Total Productive Maintenance within the OHD Lean Operating System. The position combines strategic system design with hands-on execution, with the aim of improving process capability, reliability, and cost effectiveness year over year across all sites. It leads manufacturing engineering strategy, automation and digital transformation, enterprise maintenance and reliability, facilities management, capital planning, and the technical capability roadmap. The Director reports to the Senior Vice President, Operations, and Transformation, and is expected to travel up to 50% across U.S. manufacturing sites.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, industrial, electrical, or manufacturing engineering.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, maintenance, or operations leadership.
- Demonstrated success implementing automation and TPM in multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical teams through large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, reliability engineering, and digital factory technologies, including MES, IoT, and robotics.
- Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% across U.S. manufacturing sites.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience in building products, industrial equipment, or discrete manufacturing preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead the enterprise Manufacturing Engineering strategy to improve process capability, throughput, and cost efficiency.
- Define and deploy standard manufacturing methods, best practices, and process documentation across all plants.
- Partner with Operations and Product Engineering to ensure manufacturability and scalability of new products.
- Oversee major capital investments, layout optimization, and capacity planning initiatives.
- Develop and implement the corporate automation roadmap to drive productivity, consistency, and labor efficiency.
- Lead digital transformation through implementation of smart manufacturing systems, MES, and IoT technologies.
- Integrate equipment monitoring, predictive analytics, and real-time performance dashboards.
- Evaluate and deploy robotics, vision systems, and advanced automation to improve safety and reduce waste.
- Own enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy, driving TPM deployment and asset lifecycle management.
- Establish preventive and predictive maintenance programs focused on reducing unplanned downtime and maintenance cost.
- Standardize maintenance planning, CMMS utilization, and spare parts management across plants.
- Drive year-over-year improvements in MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair).
- Oversee facilities management, including infrastructure maintenance, utilities, and energy optimization.
- Ensure facility projects meet regulatory, environmental, and safety standards.
- Lead annual capital planning and long-term asset renewal strategy.
- Drive energy efficiency and sustainability improvements in partnership with EHS & Sustainability leadership.
- Build an enterprise-level technical capability roadmap for engineers, technicians, and maintenance professionals.
- Lead advanced problem-solving using Six Sigma, root cause analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance techniques.
- Integrate engineering and maintenance metrics into site performance dashboards and executive reviews.
- Partner with Lean and Quality to ensure process discipline and adherence to standard work.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement among engineering and maintenance teams.
- Balance strategic capital planning with hands-on operational problem solving, and influence through data, collaboration, and disciplined execution.
- Serve as the corporate champion for automation, TPM, and digital manufacturing innovation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
